Installation

Binary packages are available for Isabelle/HOL and ZF for several
platforms from the Isabelle web page. The system may be easily built
from scratch as well, taking the traditional tar.gz source
distribution. See file INSTALL as distributed with Isabelle
for more information.

Further background information may be found in the Isabelle System
Manual, distributed with the sources (directory doc).

User interface

The canonical Isabelle user interface is Proof General by David Aspinall
and others. It is a generic (X)Emacs interface for proof assistants,
including Isabelle (both for the classic and Isar version). Proof
General is suitable for use by pacifists and Emacs militants
alike. Its most prominent feature is script management, providing a
metaphor of live proof script editing. Proof General has
recently gained a rather large following of both beginning and expert
users of Isabelle.

Proof General is distributed together with the XEmacs
X-Symbol package, which provides a nice way to get proper
mathematical symbols displayed on screen.

Other sources of information

The Isabelle Page

The Isabelle home page may be accessed both from Cambridge and Munich:

Mailing list

The electronic mailing list isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk
provides a forum for Isabelle users to discuss problems and exchange
information. To join, send a message to isabelle-users-request@cl.cam.ac.uk.